games that should be on steam

[Jerry_111]

I'll start:

Anachronox. I actually own this game on disc but for some reason I can't reinstall it properly! It worked fine on Windows XP but... VISTA!!!

I figure there's already an Edios game section on steam, why not add this underrated but vastly enjoyable and funny RPG -- and incidentally Ion Storm's swan song that redeems them for Daikatana -- on steam for purchase and download?!!

Your own desired games?

 

[Darkside55]

Episode 3.

 

[Qonfused]

Lol'd.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Knights of the Old Republic 2.

Episod-

****ing..

 

[unozero]

tie fighter

 

[Warped]

Final Fantasy Games!! I mean come on Square-Enix! you put like 5 games up (that are mostly garbage)

Spoiler

and could have made a killing in the PC market this holiday season

 

[Acepilotf14]

Final Fantasy Games!! I mean come on Square-Enix! you put like 5 games up (that are mostly garbage)

Spoiler

and could have made a killing in the PC market this holiday season

Most Final Fantasy games aren't on the PC to begin with. FF7 had a PC port, and it was terrible from what I've heard.

 

[StarBob]

Knights of the Old Republic 2.

Episod-

****ing..

I can't even find Kotor 2 and I would love for it to be on Steam.


Also, the FF7 PC port wasn't like... disproportionately terrible, it was just kind of (more) blocky and the sounds were skewed for whatever reason. They all should have been ported imo, but I figure square has had some Sony deal going on for a while now for exclusivity. I'm assuming it's out the window these days but only recently.

 

[Dekstar]

Triplane Turmoil 2.
Multiplayer needs to be sorted first though.

 

[Escaep]

Bad Company 2. When released.

 

[MJ12]

3D Movie Maker.

 

[Lucid]

More games by Monolith like...
Tron 2.0
No One Lives Forever 1 & 2
Shogo
Aliens vs Predator 2
Blood 1 & 2

All of Westwood's games, I mean EA must own the the license for all of their game series so they could be added to the EA catalog.
I'd love to see Emperor: Battle for Dune and Tiberian Sun on Steam the most.

 

[CyberPitz]

Bad Company 2. When released.

That's what I was gonna say!

Honestly, since BF2 came out for Steam.....I have nothing. D:

 

[Laivasse]

Definitely the FF games, particularly FF7. The PC port was actually pretty great, aside from some issues getting the midi SFX to behave, but the main problem is that it doesn't like Vista at all. Cmon, though, Squarenix could give a couple of devs a few days ironing out the issues, then rake in a cool few million by sticking it up on Steam.

It was the FF8 port which really stank, from what I remember.

 

[Captain M4d]

More earlier Lucasarts games like Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.

 

[stemot]

Monkey Island 2 Special Edition.

 

[Ren.182]

I'd love to see every game ever on steam. Make official emulators for all of the old consoles then release them on steam. I've got really bad urges to play old games like Banjo Kazooie, Jak and Daxter, Blast Corps, and all the old classics I used to play on my PS1, 2, N64, Dreamcast etc.

I remember reading somewhere Valve saying they want every game ever on steam, wish they could make it a reality. I know it wont happen though, too many publishers and devs would argue over who owns rights and such and should get the money from the sales. But I can dream.

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

+1 for Grim Fandango.

Someone remind me why they never made a sequel to that game?

 

[Kyorisu]

That's what I was gonna say!

Honestly, since BF2 came out for Steam.....I have nothing. D:

Eventually came out on Steam. EA aren't going to compete with Steam off the bat.

 

[Bob_Marley]

+1 for Grim Fandango.

Someone remind me why they never made a sequel to that game?

Abysmal sales, sadly. Part of the general decline of adventure games in the late 90s.

 

[Warped]

Nintendo could also be making a killing if they released a Steam Store channel or something of their own for PC if they were smart about it.

 

[kupocake]

Definitely the FF games, particularly FF7. The PC port was actually pretty great

It really, really wasn't. The way it handled the music was abominable (oh god... "Soundfont"), the upscaled 320x240 FMVs were nauseating and the keyboard mapping visited us from the moon. Then getting it to run was a chore well before Vista.... it was like the days of DOS all over again. On the bright side, I've sold this game twice for decent money to some very, very stupid people.

They did better with Final Fantasy 8 (the FMVs looked a lot better, the soundtrack sounded faithful enough but actually slightly punchier). But Final Fantasy? Meh. Console RPGs for the consoles is how it should stay tbh.

You people do realise that the answer is System Shock 1 + 2 and the question is why the **** not already?. Oh yes, there's probably some dangleberried "rights" excuse, and the arcane magic you have to use to get such games to work is never much fun. But I would have thought someone would have realised there's a market for the game by now. Get the Darkengine Thief games on there whilst you're at it.

The Homeworld series springs to mind as well. In fact, weren't those games supposed to be working on Steam at some point in the early days? (Or perhaps that was some talk about "Sigma" or Valve's lolworthy "Powerplay" experiment).

Second a remake of Monkey Island 2... but the character-art needs to be better this time.

 

[bryanf445]

More games by Monolith like...

Aliens vs Predator 2

I literally just tried to enter my AVP 2 key into steam and was pissed it wasn't on there.

 

[Warped]

FFX on PC would be sweet with a nice overhauled HD textures and achievements. The cut-scenes look good to this day.

 

[Laivasse]

It really, really wasn't. The way it handled the music was abominable (oh god... "Soundfont"), the upscaled 320x240 FMVs were nauseating and the keyboard mapping visited us from the moon. Then getting it to run was a chore well before Vista.... it was like the days of DOS all over again.

Never had any problems with the keyboard mapping, myself; in fact with the default setup it was possible to play the whole game easily with one hand. 'Pretty great' was probably a rose-tinted overstatement, though, thanks to some stability issues which I'm only now remembering. Still, the sound, which I mentioned, was the only real negative, and once configured well even that was a negligible drawback when you balanced it up against the loss of all the horrible jaggies from the PSX version. Having played the PC version for any length of time, it was difficult to go back to the console version without feeling like all the characters were constructed out of buzzsaws. FMVs in FF7? They were always shitty, console or PC.

They did better with Final Fantasy 8 (the FMVs looked a lot better, the soundtrack sounded faithful enough but actually slightly punchier).

Except for the part where it was so poorly optimised that it ran like molasses on a mid-level PC, despite looking worse than the PC port of FF7. IIRC it had something to do with things being rendered very inefficiently on the world map. Such crummy performance was unforgivable in a game whose 3D sections looked so bland and untaxing. As for FMVs, obviously they were better because FF8 just had much better cut scenes in the first place.

 

[dfc05]

I'd love to see every game ever on steam.

I understand the sentiment, but realize that there's a heck of a lot of craptastic games out there that I'd rather not have junking up Steam. Even with the limited selection available now, I tend to sort the games by Metacritic score when I browse the Steam store in order to bypass all the random games I'll never want to play.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.